Wesley J. Smith

P. Michael Conn, co-author of The Animal Research War, warns about the plan to use the law to undermine—and eventually destroy—animal research in a column in The Scientist. This isn’t alarmism. These law clinics at universities like Harvard and Rutgers hope to set lawyers in motion . . . . Continue Reading »

It’s sad when Jon Stewart on the Comedy Channel does the MSM’s job.  Climategate is a huge and growing scandal, and yet many outlets continue to pretend it is just powdered sugar, while the NYT won’t even report what was in the e-mails based on “policy” (even . . . . Continue Reading »

I really think that some of the major global warming hysterics have lost contact with reality. In the UK, one influential adviser now says the cost of “prevention” may have to double. From the story:Preventing runaway global warming may be twice as expensive as previously thought and . . . . Continue Reading »

Since the new government took over in Australia, it seemed a sure bet to fall for the global warming hysteria.  That changed today, with a potential economy depressing initiative to establish a carbon trading system defeated in the Senate. From the story:Australia’s Parliament defeated . . . . Continue Reading »

The scientists at the heart of Climategate, is temporarily stepping down from his university post. From the story:A scientist who is one of the central figures in the controversy over hacked e-mails from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit announced Tuesday that he is . . . . Continue Reading »

I am not a fan of the cosmetic surgery industrial complex.  As I wrote the other day, I think it promotes hedonism, takes scarce resources—including of the human kind—out of the healing sector, and promotes unreal standards of beauty.I should have added that it can also be . . . . Continue Reading »

Over the past fifty years, the purposes and practices of medicine have changed radically. Where medical ethics was once life-affirming, today’s treatments and medical procedures increasingly involve the legal taking of human life. The litany is familiar: More than one million pregnancies are . . . . Continue Reading »

We have long suspected it, and now a UN paper admits it: Radical environmentalism is being made into religion. From the story: Environmentalism should be regarded on the same level with religion “as the only compelling, value-based narrative available to humanity,” according to a paper . . . . Continue Reading »

Climategate has revealed an ugly truth: Science and journalism have become so ideologically driven that both important professions are in danger of collapse of confidence. Latest example: The BBC had the Climategate e-mails and erected the news blockade rather than expose one of the biggest science . . . . Continue Reading »

Genetic determinism is a way of liberating us from free will and taking full responsibility for our actions.  One would think that “my genes made me do it” defense would go no further than pleading, “The devil made me do it.”  Alas, one would so hope in vain.  . . . . Continue Reading »